The sun had just fallen below the horizon. I had just found some marshmallows, I need to thank my past self for buying them. You can't have a fire without marshmallows.

I slowly began the walk to the percys beach house. It wasn't too far away from mine and just like mine, you wouldn't be able to find it if you weren't searching very hard.

Emblazoned upon the low dusk light was him staring next to a bundle of branches.

"Hey Percy!" I yelled and broke into a small jog.

"Hey wise girl" Percy looked very once for a simple bonfire. He had a long navy blue short on and some track pants. I felt underdressed and a little bit cold.

"can you help me start the fire" he asked.

"do you have matches?"

"no?"

I jokingly flicked Percy's ear. "Wait it's okay I have a thingy. I'm so glad a borough this bag with me because....."

I had a survail bracelet that has a found and steel on it.

I grabbed some newspaper from percys fire pile and it took a few strikes but we managed to get a hopeful fire going.

"who is my Wise girl" he ruffled my curly blond hair.

The sun was long gone. Perry and I sat side by side facing the fire.

The gentle crackling as embers joined the starts above, the oceans waves softy breaking on the shore and the rustling of the long grass behind us.

This is what peace feels like.

"Hey Annabeth?"

"yeah Percy"

"Why do you hate your dad?"

....

"thats a difficult question to answer"

"try me"

I smirked to myself, I reached my and up to my chest and felt Percy's pendant on my collar bone, it's where I normally have my father ring.

"I was born while my father was still in college. He had a short fling with this beautiful grey-eyed woman, my mother. And none months later she had me, I wasn't planned. My mother found my father and told him I had to raise me because she wasn't in a stable position to raise me. He begged for her to keep me, for him not to bare the responsibility of raising his own child. He always acted kike is was the biggest inconvenience of his life, that he wishes I was never born or my mother had taken me and-"

It was silent. Percy had moved closer to me.

Despite the fire in front of me I was furiously Cold.

"I'm sure he didn't feel that way about you Annabeth."

I coldly laughed, "if you even meet him you would understand. His work means everything to him and I arrived whilst he was in his final years at college. He never want to prioritise me over his work".

"But I still love my brothers and my step mother did share a similar mindset to my father for a while but I think she had grown to care for me also".

"But yeah I hate my father."

We were silent, but this wasn't that awkward silence that you get when you see your school teacher outside of school, this was a calm silence I think Percy understood.

I felt goosebumps all over, I was stupid to forget to bring a jacket.

"Are you cold Annabeth?"

I didn't want to give into the weather but I was suppressing my teeth from chattering.

"Y-yeah but only a little"

Percy swiftly pulled over his long sleeve shirt to revere a tank top underneath. He handled me his shirt.

The firelight caught his eyes kindly and my breath was caught by the fire also.

"Very smooth Jackson".

He laughed and then opened up the marsh mellows.

His shirt was to bring and to long in the arms but it was soft and warm.